Oak Park, River Forest police blotter: March 25

March 25, 2013

The following items were taken from Oak Park and River Forest police records.

Oak Park

Robbery

A Chicago boy was arrested at 5:20 p.m. March 20 after he was identified as the person who had thrown someone to the ground and tried to take an Apple iPhone in a robbery about 7:40 a.m. March 13 on the 200 block of Ontario Street. Two men grabbed the offender and retrieved the phone. The offender was released to his guardian.

Attempted armed robbery

Two 17-year-old boys from Oak Park were arrested at about 3:25 p.m. March 20 at Oak Park and River Forest High School for the attempted armed robbery of a 17-year-old River Forest boy March 19 on the 400 block of North East Avenue. The victim reported that a boy about 16 years old had approached him at about 3:20 p.m. March 19, showed a black semiautomatic pistol and asked for money. The victim did not comply.

Theft

An Oak Park boy was arrested at about 11:44 a.m. March 21 at Brooks Middle School, in the 300 block of South Kenilworth Avenue, in connection with the theft of an iPod from the school. He was turned over to a parent.

Someone took a wallet out of an Oak Park woman's purse on a chair in a business on the 1100 block of Lake Street between 8 and 8:40 p.m. March 20. Inside were $160, a driver's license and credit and debit cards.

Twenty-two pounds of jalapeno peppers were removed from a UPS package left in a common area of a building on the 200 block of South Maple Avenue between noon and 4 p.m. March 20. The loss was estimated at $60.

A River Forest youth's black Apple iPhone 4 was stolen out of an unlocked and unattended gym locker at Oak Park and River Forest High School, 200 block of Scoville Avenue, between 1:20 p.m. and 2:20 p.m. March 20. Its value was $100.

A black Apple iPhone 5 and $60 were stolen between 10 and 10:45 a.m. March 20 out of a locked locker in a building on the 1100 block of Lake Street. Loss was estimated at $660.

Someone took the keys to a white 2010 Mercedes Benz 350E out of an unattended gym bag in a locker room at 300 Lake St., then stole the vehicle from the parking lot at about 1 p.m. March 18. An Apple iPhone and $90 also were in the gym bag of the Oak park resident. Total loss was $54,390.

An Oak Park boy's cellphone and Apple iPod, worth a total of $750, were stolen out of an unlocked gym locker at Oak Park and River Forest High School, on the 200 block of Scoville Avenue, between 8 and 8:45 a.m. March 15.

A Chicago woman's unattended purse was stolen out of a booth in a restaurant in the 100 block of North Harlem Avenue about 8 p.m. March 14. Loss was $65.

Ten feet of copper downspout was stolen off the north side of a home on the 1200 block of Fair Oaks between noon March 10 and 5:30 p.m. March 12. Loss was $800.

A gray cement planter was stolen off the rear porch of a home on the 200 block of South Maple Avenue between 2 and 7:45 p.m. March 14.

Burglary

A man entered a home on the 1000 block of South Austin Boulevard about 8:30 a.m. March 21 through a front porch window, took a Netflix DVD worth $20 and left when he heard footsteps. He was in his 20s, 5 feet 4 inches, weighed 150 pounds and was wearing a black coat, blue jeans and red skullcap.

Someone pried open the side door of a garage on the 800 block of South Humphrey Avenue, broke the driver's side windows of both vehicles inside, ransacked the vehicles and took tools worth $820 and a black wallet containing $160 between 6:30 p.m. March 20 and 6:41 a.m. March 21.

A 17-year-old Chicago boy and 25-year-old Elgin man were charged March 18 with residential burglary and criminal damage to state-supported property regarding an incident on the 600 block of South Scoville Avenue.

A side door of a garage on the 1100 block of Lyman Avenue was pried open between 12:01 a.m. March 19 and 6 a.m. March 20. A red Toro snowblower, a red generator and a saw, worth $1,250, were stolen.

A Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS system and Oakley Frogskin glasses, both worth $430, and a Social Security card were removed from an unlocked car in a parking garage at 900 Lake Street between 10:30 p.m. March 15 and 6:15 p.m. March 18.

A man wearing a dark jacket with a dragon on the back entered a home in the 1200 block of North Harlem Avenue through an unlocked window and took $145 between 6:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. March 19. The man was about 30 and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt under the jacket.

Someone pried open the side door of a garage on the 700 block of South Humphrey Avenue between 6:30 p.m. March 12 and 2 p.m. March 13, ransacked a vehicle inside and stole a garage door opener worth $180.

Three black office chairs, a silver Milwaukee Sawzall and a 6-foot aluminum ladder, all worth $800, were stolen from an unlocked garage in the 1000 block of South Scoville Avenue between noon March 14 and 10 a.m. March 16.

Attempted burglary

Someone tried to force open the door on the south side of a house on the 1000 block of North Kenilworth Avenue to enter the home at about 11:18 a.m. March 18.